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Tahiti?

Gauguin. Married life as a stockbroker probably isn't as interesting as painting native women in Tahiti. The other choices had colorful lives (to be sure), but didn't quite get to that part of the world.

Pamplona?

Ernest Hemingway. Ah, the running of the bulls in Spain. Is Hemingway more well-known for anything else?

Alaska?

Jack London. London was an adventurer - one of his adventures involved gold prospecting in Alaska. Orwell had his excitement in the Spanish Civil War. Wolfe wouldn't have liked Alaska - he caught a chill in the Pacific Northwest and never recovered.

Mexico?

B. Traven. Traven, author of 'Treasure of Sierra Madre', was a very shadowy figure. He apparently spent much of the latter part of his life in Mexico. Poe led a fascinating life - but not there.

Honduras?

Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill was also an adventurer. His adventures included work as an able-bodied seaman, but he was also a gold prospector in Honduras.

Skyros?

Rupert Brooke. All were World War I poets. Seeger, who served at one time in the French Foreign Legion, kept his 'rendezvous with death' in Europe. Owen died one week before the armmistice was signed. It was Brooke, however, who died on the Greek Isle of Skyros (in the Aegean). There's a statue to him there.

Cape Breton?

Alexander Graham Bell. Bell settled on Cape Breton Island in Northeastern Canada. He called it one of the prettiest places that he'd ever seen. There's an exhibit about him there.

Samoa?

Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson took off - partly for adventure, partly for health. Why not?

Paris, Capri, Russia, Pago Pago, Asia?

W. Somerset Maugham. An incredible life of world travel.

India?

Rudyard Kipling. Kipling was born in India and returned there after some time away.